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Learning places : the afterlives of area studies /

Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous reexamination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area stud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Miyoshi, Masao (Editor ), Harootunian, Harry D., 1929- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Asia-Pacific.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the "afterlife" of area studies
  • Ivory tower in escrow / Masao Miyoshi
  • Andō Shōeki : "the forgotten thinker" in Japanese history / Tetsuo Najita
  • Objectivism and eradication of critique in Japanese history / Stefan Tanaka
  • Theory, area studies, cultural studies : issues of pedagogy in multiculturalism / Rey Chow
  • Signs of our times : a discussion of Homi Bhabha's The location of culture / Benita Parry
  • Postcoloniality's unconscious/area studies' desire / H.D. Harootunian
  • Asian exclusion acts / Sylvia Yanagisako
  • Areas, disciplines, and ethnicity / Richard H. Okada
  • Can American studies be area studies / Paul A. Bové
  • Imagining "Asia-Pacific" today : forgetting colonialism in the magical free markets of the American Pacific / Rob Wilson
  • Boundary displacement : the state, the foundations, and area studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce S. Cumings
  • The disappearance of modern Japan : Japan and social science / Bernard S. Silberman
  • Bad karma in Asia / Moss Roberts
  • From politics to culture : modern Japanese literary studies in the age of cultural studies / James A. Fujii
  • Questions of Japanese cinema : disciplinary boundaries and invention of scholarly object / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.